Note 5 — Chapter III · FRINGING OR SHORE-REEFS.

I may give Cuba, as another instance; Mr. Taylor (Loudon’s Mag. of Nat. Hist. volume ix., page 449) has described a reef several miles in length between Gibara and Vjaro, which extends parallel to the shore at the distance of between half and the third part of a mile, and encloses a space of shallow water, with a sandy bottom and tufts of coral. Outside the edge of the reef, which is formed of great branching corals, the depth is six and seven fathoms. This coast has been upheaved at no very distant geological period.”